Being a business owner isn’t easy. It requires a lot of hard work, and even then, you aren’t guaranteed to be successful. While external market factors can certainly play a big role in whether or not your startup turns into a long-term success story, your influence
As our world has been turned upside down, so have our workforces. Now more than ever, employees are looking for things that are familiar, reliable and consistent. According to Gallup, “Global citizens look to leadership to provide a path — and to provide confidence that there is
While lowering the cost to human life remains of utmost importance during the COVID-19 outbreak, the virus is also fiercely impacting businesses across the globe. In the United States 17 million people, 10% of the workforce, filed for unemployment in a three-week period, and the OECD projects world GDP
Good news for entrepreneurship, bad news for entrepreneurs who don’t want any market competition: We’re experiencing the highest level of entrepreneurial activity recorded in the last two decades, according to a data set published by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2019. There’s been an uptick in 55-
Many people have big dreams of quitting their day jobs and going to work on a venture that they love. To which I say: Why don’t they? True, for most people, quitting their jobs with little to no resources to fall back on and taking a blind step
For many U.S. entrepreneurs, success may be synonymous with the southwest. That’s according to an analysis of 2018 U.S. Census Bureau data, which found that with a median annual income of $50,000, full-time entrepreneurs in many parts of the U.S. aren’t making more than their 9-to-5 counterparts — in
Toby Cosgrove, former president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, shares his thoughts on the challenges of leading a hospital from the viewpoint of a surgeon and how his dyslexia brought him a unique perspective on life and business. Cosgrove and The Playbook host David Meltzer discuss a variety of
In Delano, Calif., Kern Valley State Prison is barely visible from the main road, a low-lying cluster of buildings hidden behind a waste treatment plant and a desert vineyard. If it weren’t for the rows of barbed wire fences, it could be almost anything: a